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This Ministry of Defence file, released through The National Archives and published by The Black Vault, holds the MOD's 2002 handling of Dr David Clarke's requests for UFO documents under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. It includes the MOD's 9 December 2002 reply, which covered reports from 1976, 1980, 1993 and 1996 and charged £260. It also contains internal emails and file requisitions, plus Foreign Office and United Nations papers from 1978 on Grenada's proposal for UFO research.
“The Advance”16 pages
'· /..(. ·, ACTION ON ORIGINAL DOCUMENT ABBREVIATED CO ANNEX F TO D/DA0/1/13 DATED 13 NOV 96 REDMOND'S LETTER 1. General. traffic betwee Coordination c or intercepted various ways; been linked wi Boston Lines. lllllllls comments are largely based on radio t Yarmouth Coastguard Maritime Rescue re and various agencies which was either released en reported in the press and interpreted in roneously, the visual observations of lights have 2. Para 1. unusual lights systems' did n 3. Para 2. a. Ligh the E and crew of separate ta Claxby, L'nc display a N at the La do Drayton; the Waddi position, close to was made. ersistent radar returns from a permanent echo at e was no visual identified flying craft only rrelation by ~various different military radar ith different characteristics were observed to SE of Skegness and Boston by Police and by the nocoast some a miles east of Skegness. A ionary object was detected on one ATC radar at , over Boston and observed on the same radar atishead, Anglia Radar (later) and the D&D Cell Air Traffic Control Centre (LATCC) West ationary object was also detected much later on n approach radar, however this was in a separate over Boston. Three aircraft subsequently flew ~object' but no sighting of an airborne vehicle b. RAF involved in this event. confusion a arisen because Gt Yarmouth coastguard, referred incorrectl o ~D&D Northwood' instead of ~D&D West Drayton' in several t ansmissions or conversations; this error was reproduced i press reports. 4. Para 3. \ a. Aircr~f were not scrambled because there was no evidence w a soever of an unidentified airborne vehicle in the vicini y. b. Torna o F3 QRA aircraft are held on high alert at RAF Leuchars b t ot routinely at Leeming or coningsby. c. The ir Rescue Coordination Centre (ARCC), Kinless was only ved by Gt Yarmouth Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordinati n entre (MRCC} to ascertain whether they knew of any air ac iv'ty in the area. ARCC, in turn, asked CRC Neatisheadian D&D who replied in the negative; ARCC subsequent y elayed several messages between D&D/Neatishead and the MR c oncerning the stationary radar plot. I 5. Para 4. L ca ions of permanent echoes are well known to
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